two of my fave songs as usual

video : 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4PExKSYfmU&ab_channel=shqdel

warm enough x miss da sun (covered by shqdel)

take it day by day 


instrumental .. I need to Shazam that I literally sang this to myself before hopping in the shower with random lo fi beats playing. felt compelled to sing this to myself. channel. a lil sonic scribble.

everydayzachantsforredemption. - shqdel

This is the original length of the sound piece that accompanies Sania Khan's experimental short film, "The Space in Between", in which I am featured. Sania and I had first met over zoom to discuss the film. After not realizing 4 hrs had passed, I was inspired after the conversation to sing a song. It's included here too. I look forward to experimenting with more pieces like this. Thank you to the community for sharing your vulnerability. 

Full video and credits can be found here :
https://www.scarborougharts.com/new-depths-selected-works/sania-khan

" Liminality is the threshold between where we once were and where we are moving toward. It is a space that is simultaneously in motion and in utter stillness.  

The threshold as a navigational axis point isn't interested in arrival.  
What if we never arrive? 
Are we even meant to arrive?  

The threshold is a space that reveals our unbecoming, our messy and our non-linear. It is the site on which breakthroughs are catalyzed, and new wisdoms are unveiled.  

For Black, Indigenous, racialized, LGBTQIA2S+, disabled, and working class communities, liminality is the site on which we perpetually reside. Alongside the rupturing of old systems in this moment, our communities have alchemized within liminal spaces through processes of collective grieving, healing and dreaming. Even while navigating deep systemic unrest, our communities have not only re-imagined new worlds, we've simultaneously reclaimed the joy, ease, and rest that is our birthright.  

This experimental short film is a collective meditation on the theme of liminality as an ever-present landscape for our communities. By weaving together voice recordings submitted by sacred community, this short film provides a multi-sensory, dreamlike exploration into the ways in which we're currently alchemizing the scope of this moment to motion through time, space and self. "

The Space In Between

singing in the shower :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsRTOnd8D-o&ab_channel=shqdel

Lullaby By Umi ft. Yeek x Youth By Daughter (covered by shqdel)

singing with the kalimba with staircase acoustics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt-GMU4RZAE&ab_channel=shqdel

Locket - Crumb(covered by shqdel)

visualizer : 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrnS8bMPFZM&t=11s&ab_channel=shqdel

Jenevieve  - Baby Powder (covered by shqdel)

voice memo 5 : [UNREVISED] Tools

6et it to6ether / contemplations from the chrysqlis

trqnsiti0n / contemplqtions from the chrysqlis (prod. j'san)

my rendition of two groovy songs by Tyler the Creator.

callmeletzduesumfin (prod. Protagonist) (Boredom x 911 Mr. Lonely Cover)

This one is for my fellow anxious introverts to groove to. I have an endless vault of songs I would spontaneously create to process and release any thoughts or feelings. During the peak of my anxiety in 2018, after long days of work and school, I would look forward to decompressing on my commute home to exhale and just listen to music. Sometimes, when I would see someone I knew, but didn't have any social energy left, I would pretend to be asleep. I felt anxious that this act of self-preservation would be received as rude or hostile if they caught me mid-way through suddenly knock out! If I had any energy left I would definitely engage, but such is the introvert life. I used to kick myself for it, but I grew to accept that my capacity to interact does not invalidate my intention to connect. The threshold of my social exhaustion has grown over time, but this song is a little time capsule of the internal dialogue that would happen, as I would sink into my seat as I saw familiar faces enter through train doors.  In 2019, I met with the sonic genius, producer Josh Grant and we recorded the vocals in that one session on a beat he had created. I wanted to evoke the feeling of a typical commute home to Scarborough coming from Downtown Toronto. Releasing this song during the pandemic has added layers to the lyrics, "please don't talk to me"--as we have shifted into this hostile climate of avoiding interaction on top of having our faces always glowing from the lights on our screens.

com(MUTE)

** we do not own this instrumental ** 

a song written, recorded and video created all within the span of a few hours the day before the official lockdown in March had been implemented. 

check out the video here:
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/tv/B923QltgCEF/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

or 

Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDDD237EfJs

papaya smoothie (SUN SHAMAN x shqdel)prod. Wun Two

Og Luv Kush by Kaiit (covered by shqdel)

#wip

sonic tranquilizer from Scarborough
singcopation in da simulation
melodic poetry audiobook or somn
idk under construction

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